Godney Aquaponics


Godney Aquaponics
In the village of Godney, with the beautiful back drop of the Glastonbury Tor, Melv and Sal are embarking on a new venture. Fed up with the poor quality of veg in the shops, they have the ambition to set up an aquaponics system to provide fresh vegetables and salad crops for the village, and with a little help from their hens a supply of fresh free range eggs too.


What is Aquaponics??


What is Aquaponics??
Aquaponics is a sustainable method of producing quality food with minimal external inputs. It is a system that combines conventional aquaculture (e.g. fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Water from the aquaculture system is fed to the hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down and are utilised by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then re-circulated back to the aquaculture system.


Saturday, 6 October 2018

Making sure we are fit for purpose

The demand for our salad leaves over the summer put us in to a spin and we needed to draw on Melv's building skills - yet again to make us fit for purpose! We were desperate for somewhere to put our growing salad leaves out of harms way to enable them to mature. Weather and insects were our main enemies - so we needed to prepare a meshed covered area which provided shade.


The first job was to flatten the ground and lay the foundations - Melv put the stone down and we were ready to go...


The frame goes up...


The roof is on, next the sides to keep the insects and weather off.


Melv makes the racking to hold the trays


Once the ends are filled in - we are there, our salad tunnel is complete


Ready to hold 400 salad trays - we're gearing up!
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